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Fish And Meats

From Choice Receipts (1872).

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A historical recipe

Choice Receipts (1872).

United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 8 ingredients

  1. Four tablespoonfuls of onion fried
  2. one quart of boiled potatoes
  3. one tablespoonful of summer savory
  4. a teaspoonful each of cloves
  5. one teaspoonful of red pepper
  6. three teaspoonfuls of black pepper
  7. six pounds of bass
  8. one pilot bread

Method

  1. Chowder.
  2. — (“ Com.
  3. Stevens.”) — Four tablespoonfuls of onion fried with pork, one quart of boiled potatoes well mashed, one pilot bread and a half, broken, one tablespoonful of summer savory and thyme mixed, quarter bottle of catsup, half bottle of port or claret wine, half a nutmeg grated, half a teaspoonful each of cloves, mace, and allspice, one teaspoonful of red pepper, three teaspoonfuls of black pepper, salt, six pounds of bass or cod cut in slices.
  4. Put the whole in a kettle together, with water enough to cover two or three inches.
  5. Boil one and a half hours, stirring gently.

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Credit

From Choice Receipts (1872), printed page 9, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b28071980

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.